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Cool idea. I looked at your demo, but all I could get from it was a report of visit counts by diagnosis/symptom. Can you explain how the example question you of

by shimon 11y ago

Cool idea. I looked at your demo, but all I could get from it was a report of visit counts by diagnosis/symptom. Can you explain how the example question you offered (Sarcoidosis, headache, readmit) could be answered? Is your goal to build a business or a non-profit? Who pays for it? There are lots of potential users of this data, but some already have access to this data; do you open up the data to users who wouldn't have been able to access it before?

aub3bhat 11y ago
Hi, the Texas data which is publicly available to download, only has individual visits. While the HCUP data (california state datasets) has information for ED, Ambulatory Surgery and Inpatient visits linked to a unique patient identifier spanning over multiple years. Using this data, you can set up complex query types such readmission following a hospitalization with a DRG. We do not offer these results online. But you can see an example (fake data) of readmissions following sub-endocardial infarction (a heart attack) in which the patient underwent intubation in the next visit. http://www.computationalhealthcare.com/N2/HCUP/Entry/D41071_P9604 http://www.computationalhealthcare.com/N2/HCUP/Entry/D41071_... >> Is your goal to build a business or a non-profit? We plan on building a business. We plan to operate a publicly available service for researchers and physicians that also acts as marketing vehicle. In addition to the central platform and we will allow individual enterprise users to run it on their premise with their own dataset. >> Who pays for it? Hospital, Insurers and Government agencies already have their own data in same format as we do. We plan to create a simple hosted drop in solution. By creating a single platform for all three types of customers and a public platform we can divide the development costs. Further we plan to offer add-ons specific to requirements of each customer type. We do not "own" the raw data. The "raw" data is merely licensed to use for specific use cases by the government. We plan on using the data provided by the government to generate insights in form of aggregate statistics. These insights are then in turn provided to physicians and researchers.

by shimon 11y ago

aub3bhat 11y ago

Hi, the Texas data which is publicly available to download, only has individual visits. While the HCUP data (california state datasets) has information for ED, Ambulatory Surgery and Inpatient visits linked to a unique patient identifier spanning over multiple years. Using this data, you can set up complex query types such readmission following a hospitalization with a DRG. We do not offer these results online. But you can see an example (fake data) of readmissions following sub-endocardial infarction (a heart attack) in which the patient underwent intubation in the next visit. http://www.computationalhealthcare.com/N2/HCUP/Entry/D41071_P9604 http://www.computationalhealthcare.com/N2/HCUP/Entry/D41071_... >> Is your goal to build a business or a non-profit? We plan on building a business. We plan to operate a publicly available service for researchers and physicians that also acts as marketing vehicle. In addition to the central platform and we will allow individual enterprise users to run it on their premise with their own dataset. >> Who pays for it? Hospital, Insurers and Government agencies already have their own data in same format as we do. We plan to create a simple hosted drop in solution. By creating a single platform for all three types of customers and a public platform we can divide the development costs. Further we plan to offer add-ons specific to requirements of each customer type. We do not "own" the raw data. The "raw" data is merely licensed to use for specific use cases by the government. We plan on using the data provided by the government to generate insights in form of aggregate statistics. These insights are then in turn provided to physicians and researchers.